On the same day that the Tories were edified by
the eloquence of Mr. King, the Reformers of Cheshire gave their Member, Mr. George Wil- braham, a public dinner in Chester, at the Royal Hotel ; Lord Robert Grosvenor in the chair. The Marquis of Westminster, Lord Alostyn, Sir Thomas Stanley, Mr. Biddulph, Mr. Thornely, General Glegg, and Mr. litingerford Crewe, were among the most distinguished per- sons present. Several speeches were delivered, but the only report of them which we have seen is exceedingly meagre. Mr. Wilbraham seems to have spoken like a thorough Liberal.
An address, signed by 3000 inhabitants of Plymouth, Devonport, and Storehouse, was presented to Lord John Russell, at Endsleigh, on Thursday. Lord John expressed his approbation of the " generous spirit in which the sentiments of the address were conceived, and the temperate language in which they were conveyed." lie adverted to the rejection by the house of Lords of several Ministerial measures— They exercised their undoubted privilege; whether wisely or no, it is for you, and not fur me, to determine. I may, however, be permitted to observe, that the same party which prompted and led this resistance, have been opposed to every Liberal measure which has been proposed for the last seven years ; and that, upon all the most important of these measures, their resistance has ended in a confession that the struggle was hopeless,*and that, although darkness was still to be desired, light was no longer to be excluded."
He declared his resolution to adhere to the " great landmarks of our liberties," and professed himself an ardent admirer of the Consti- tution of this country in " all its branches: " he stood pledged to it "by feeling, by opinion, by duty."
On Thursday, about a thousand members of the South Lancashire Conservative Association dined together at Newton. Lord Francis Egerton was Chairman. Lord Wilton, Sir Edward Barnes, and the Reverend Mr. Parkinson, were the chief speakers. Mr. Horsetail of Liverpool complained bitterly of Lord Stanley's opposition to Cot.- servative Associations. Sir Robert Peel's health was drunk—but the toast was very low on the list, and after Lord Lyndhurst's.
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